Apparel-collar.



No. 655,272 Patented A ug. 7, I900.

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APPAREL COLLAR.

(Application filed June 1, 1899.)

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APPAREL COLLAR.

(Application filed June 1, 1899.)

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE APPAREL-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent N0. 655,272, dated August'7, 1900.

Application filed June 1,1899. Serial No. 718,975 (No model.)

To all whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, WARREN ADAMS PINE, of the village of Lansingburg,county of Bensselaer, and State of New York, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Apparel- Oollars, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to apparel-collars and their adaptation to receivean inserted stiffener made of sheet-form material which is flexible andimpervious to the action of water or moisture and which can be removedfrom the collar when the latter is being laundered and again insertedafter the latter has been done, it being the object and purpose of myinvention to adapt the collar to retain an upright position even whilethe person wearing it is perspiring freely.

The said invention relates to the construction and combination of partshereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there are twosheets of drawings containing six figures illustrating the applicationof my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter referenceused in all of them. Of these illustrations, Figure 1 is a perspectiveof the collar with the interiorly-arranged stiffener in place Within thecollar. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the sheetform stiffener shown asdetached from the collar. Fig. 3'is an elevation of the collar shown atFig. 1 with the stiffener removed and with what is the inner face of thecollar when worn shown as facing the view. Fig. 4c is an elevation ofthe collar and applied stiffener with what is the inside face of thecollar when worn shown as facing the View. Fig. 5 shows a part of theinner face of the collar fronting the view and with the tab that isformed on its inner face shown as turned up and the stiffener omitted.Fig. 6 is a section taken on the line 0; 9: of Fig. 3.

The several parts of the collar thus illustrated are designated byletter reference, and the function of the parts is described as follows:

The letter F designates the facing of that part of the collar whichforms the outside of the latter when worn, and theletters F designatethat part of the collar which forms the inner facing and that which isnext to the person of the wearer when worn. The facing F is formed witha continuous border 13, narrower than the facing F and the ends E E.

The letter T designates a tab that is downwardly projected from the topedge of the border B to extend to the bottom edge of the collar, andthis tab at its lower end is provided with a buttonhole 0, arranged tobe in line with the buttonhole O made through the ply P and facing F.

The letter S designates a stifiener made from celluloid, parchment, orother sheetform material which is flexible and impervious to the actionof moisture or water. This stiffener S is arranged on the inner face ofthe collar, so as to form when applied a part of the latter by havingits upper edges inserted beneath the border 13 to extend to the top andbottom of the collar, with the ends of the stiffener inserted beneaththe border 13 at the ends E E of the collar, with the cutaway parts ofthe stiffener indicated at m we, each resting upon one of the seams Sconnecting the border B at the bottom of each of its ends with the ply Pand the outer facing of the collar. This stiifener is cut away at (J forthe passage of the button connecting the tab T with the outer facing andthe collar with the neckband of the shirt upon which it is worn; Thecollar has the usual tabs D D, by which the ends of the collar connectwith each other and the neckband of the shirt at the front by means ofbuttonholes 0 formed in each of the tabs D. The stiffener S is cutawayat each of its ends at for the passage of the button-eye, which connectsthe front ends of the collar with each other and to the neckband of theshirt upon which it is worn. As thus made the collar when soiled may belaundered with the stiffener removed and worn with the stiffener againinserted.

Having thus describedmy invention, what Letters Patwith a border B forthe top and ends of the lat{ IOO ter facing, and an interposedstifEenerS of ma- York, this 3d day of March, 1899, and in the terialimpervious to moisture, which is cut presence of the two Witnesses whosenames are away at m m, these cut-away parts resting on hereto written.

the seams which connect the border aforesaid WARREN ADAMS PINE. 5 to thesaid outer facing, substantially as and W'itnesses:

for the purpose set forth. W. E. HAGAN, Signed at the Village ofLansingbnrg, New B. O. I-IONY.

